How to Play 21 in Basketball

Video Transcript

"You know, learning to play basketball, it's not all playing games, playing, playing straight five on five games. Sometimes to improve your game you might, you, you and your friends might want to get together, and play a game of 21. Hi, I'm Travis and this is how to play 21. Whenever you're starting a game of 21 you want to always start, the game always starts by someone taking the ball and shooting it from the free throw line to start the game. Now we, we're not, as you get older you might want to move back and start he game from the 3 point line which is what I usually do but you want to start the game either, either here or the 3 point line. So if we're starting the game, we're starting the game from the, from the free throw line, it starts it off with a free throw. Every free throw is 1 point, once that shot, once you take that shot the game begins. Now everyone else on the court it's, it's every man for himself. So everyone else on the court is trying to get the ball so if you make it you continue to shoot until you can make 3. If you miss it, they get the balls in play; here we go every man for himself. So once every man, once, once everyone's scrambling around trying to get the ball it's anyone, if any man shoot; once the free throw is missed, if anybody hits another shot in between that time, any shot other than a free throw is going to be 2 points. So let's say I missed the, I missed my free throw so everybody's scrambling around, I get the ball, another man, I; I get the ball and I make it, that's 2 points. Once you hit that 2 pointer that person goes back to the free throw line to shoot another free throw. Now let's say you're at the free throw line and you've got 20, and you got to hit this last shot to win the game, different rules, different rules within different places that you play so if I got 20 and I'm on the line, and I shoot that free throw and make it the game is over. Now if I shoot that free throw and I miss it, the game; actually my score goes back to 21, the game changes. So it's, it's a little, it's a little crazy depending on where you're playing but that the basis of playing 21."